Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354612 | High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy fr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351939 | Toaster A toaster is provided having a base which may be interchangeable or integral with the toaster unit. The toaster also contains an angled heating chamber having manually moveable heating element assemblies, a centering carriage, and a toast lift that optimize the dist... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7174885 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus capable of uniformly heating and cooking food laid on a grill unit using thermal energy radiated from a heating unit, includes a cabinet opened at a top surface thereof to provide an opening over which the food to be cooked is laid. A grill unit ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168425 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus, which is provided with a cover having an air ventilation structure that ventilates air into and out of a cooking space to maintain a desirable temperature of the cooking space. Accordingly, the cooking apparatus has at least one heating unit, a ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163011 | Outdoor gas grill with auxiliary burner unit, and method of using same A gas grilling apparatus includes a cart, a grill housing attached to the cart, and a grill and a main grill burner contained in the grill housing. An auxiliary burner unit is also attached to the cart, and the auxiliary burner unit is located, or is placeable at a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159510 | Vertically oriented jerky dehydrator A jerky dehydrator comprises several baskets for receiving and retaining the product to be dehydrated and a racking grid for retaining several baskets in a vertical orientation. The racking grid is inserted into a metal tray, and the tray is inserted into the oven o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7013798 | Toaster A toaster having: a frame enclosing an open heating chamber; a bread supporting carriage mounted in the chamber and vertically movable relative to the frame, the carriage being retainable in a lowered position for toasting; an extension piece fixed to the carriage; ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6675700 | Electric toaster having movable heating elements A toaster has a chassis, a pair of end plates, a frame positioned in between and supported by the end plates. There is a pair of heating elements supported by the frame and a receiving bay between the frames. A carriage is movable within the receiving bay... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6530309 | Apparatus for toasting bread An apparatus for toasting bread, includes a housing (2) with a slot (3) which leads into a toasting space (4). Heater elements (5) are arranged on both sides of this space which each cooperate with a reflector (7) for reflecting radiation in the direction... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6350970 | Appliance switching mechanism and method A switching mechanism is utilized in a heating appliance, such as a toaster, that includes a bread support that supports a food item to insert and remove the food item from a cooking cavity of the appliance. The appliance includes an electronic circuit th... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6323467 | Method and apparatus for selectively applying heat to an object using an addressable array A heating apparatus having a heating grid array wherein individual elements of the heating grid array may by selected, thereby producing a heating/browning effect from the selected elements. Groups of the individual elements may be selected such that a de... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6311610 | Food product toaster A toaster for bread-type food products includes a generally upright using defining a toasting cavity having a top mouth for depositing the food products into the cavity and a bottom opening from which toasted food products exit the cavity. A conveyor conv... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6267044 | Batch toaster A batch type toaster includes a cool remote waiting zone and an intrinsically controlled transport mechanism that retains the bread in said waiting zone while the toasting zone is heating to optimum toasting conditions and subsequently moves the bread int... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6223650 | Apparatus for conveyorized toasting of breads and like food items An apparatus for conveyorized toasting of sandwich buns and like bread and food items simultaneously on opposite sides comprises a central heated platen with two bun transport conveyors traveling in spaced relation along opposite sides of the platen and w... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6205911 | Toasting apparatus A toasting apparatus is provided which includes a housing, a base having first and second side walls and a plurality of slots disposed within the housing at an angle less than about 45° from top planar surfaces of the first and second side walls of the b... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6199473 | Grilling appliance A grilling appliance includes a housing defining an internal grilling compartment for receiving food articles to be grilled; an impaling member mounted within the grilling compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled; a circular array of electric... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6116150 | Multi-level toaster A vertically extending, cylindrical toaster having a plurality of modules which may be integrally joined together in a single housing or may be separably stacked one upon the other. Each module comprises at least one individual heating unit having a horiz... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5928544 | Cooking appliance with movable base unit having two heating elements providing heat from above or below the food to be cooked A cooking appliance having a hob surface is provided with a hob heating element provided in the top surface of a base unit. The base unit is arranged to be capable of being raised above the level of the hob surface in order to expose a further heating ele... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5910332 | Rotisserie broiler A rotary broiler assembly includes a rotisserie structure rotatable about a fixed axis. The rotisserie structure has a holding device radially spaced from the axis for holding a food item such as chicken thereon. When the rotisserie structure is rotated, ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5907994 | Grilling appliance A grilling appliance includes a housing defining an internal grilling compartment for receiving a food article to be grilled; an impaling member mounted within the grilling compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled; a circular array of electri... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5836295 | Outdoor grill with removable components A grill has detachable legs and removable fireboxes to conserve space during storage or transport. The fireboxes are spaced from the bottom of the housing to retard corrosion of the housing. The fireboxes may be mounted directly on the housing sidewalls o... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5676045 | Outdoor grill An outdoor grill has a firebox positioned in a corner at the intersection of the sidewall and bottom of the grill. The firebox has a heat directing surface oriented at an angle to match the angle of the cooking rack which has a handle extending through th... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5673610 | Apparatus for conveyorized toasting of breads and like food items An apparatus for conveyorized toasting of sandwich buns and like bread and food items simultaneously on opposite sides comprises a central heated platen with two bun transport conveyors traveling in spaced relation along opposite sides of the platen and w... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5584231 | Multi-purpose food toaster/warmer An apparatus to heat or toast tortillas, and uses adjustable food support arrays and heating element arrays, forming a single food enclosure or a plurality of food enclosures, to change the proximity of the heating elements to the food items being heated ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5544569 | Griddle and heater bag Adjustably spaced vertical heating panels have heated facing surfaces which with end walls and a sliding bottom panel define a vertical heating space wherein chips or other foodstuffs can be cooked.... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5487328 | Toaster A toaster having a toaster body, and a bread inlet port formed of a longitudinally extended opening opened at the top portion of the toaster body is composed of a pair of heating members respectively including heaters being parallely installed to a lower ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5315920 | Apparatus for high-speed cosmetic finishing of precooked food articles The invention is an apparatus for heat processing of food. The invention includes a frame which supports the subcomponents of the apparatus. The apparatus' subcomponents include a rack having a plurality of hook-like projections for holding the food. A ra... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5197377 | Apparatus for two-sided cooking Apparatus for two-sided cooking comprises one or more upper housing assemblies each having a pair of spaced bayonette members which are removably insertable in a holster brackett. The bracket is readily attachable to the rear of a conventional cooking gri... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5000083 | Salamander-type broiler/cooker A salamander-type overhead broiler/cooler has a base on a support adapted to hold a foodstuff to be heated, a heating unit vertically displaceable on the support energizable to radiate heat downward at the support, and a horizontal light curtain at a pred... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4987827 | Cooking apparatus An apparatus for cooking food stuffs especially for frying batter into tortillas. The apparatus has two separate cooking areas. One area has an upper and a first lower heating surface for precooking the tortilla and one area has a single second lower heat... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4976195 | Combination bread and tortilla toaster A combination electric toaster for reheating either conventional sliced bread or tortillas. A tortilla is a very thin slice of unleavened bread which is usually circular and significantly larger in overall length than conventional slices of bread. The alt... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4889042 | Electric household appliance combining a toaster and an oven Electric household appliance (1) which combines toasting of bread (A) and cooking or heating of dishes (B) by an appliance (1) which comprises separate elongated compartments (2, 3) extending in parallel relation respectively for toasting (2) and cooking ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4781170 | Traveling flame burner A cooking appliance includes an elongated heat source, which may be a gas burner tube. The elongated heat source is mounted for movement in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the heat source, and a driving arrangement is provided... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4663517 | Electric barbeque cooker An electric barbeque cooker has an electric heating unit dimensioned to fit within a cooker bowl. The heating unit is connected to a power supply and it is mounted within the bowl for movement between a horizontal position and an a nonhorizontal position.... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4627410 | Barbecue grill A cooking oven which comprises a pair of opposing end walls, a pair of opposing side walls, the side walls disposed inside of the end walls and defining, together with the end walls, a cooking chamber, a supporting frame adapted to support the end walls a... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4567819 | Apparatus for two-sided grilling of hamburger patties A front loading and unloading grill apparatus for two-sided grilling of hamburger patties. The grill apparatus includes upper and lower cooking platens, a patty support panel at the front of the lower cooking platen and an endless conveyor for advancing u... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4568552 | Method and device for broiling food products A method and a device for broiling food products such as hamburgers are disclosed wherein the food products are positioned between a lower heated broiling surface and an upper heated broiling surface for broiling the products by contacting corresponding s... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4561418 | Barbecue grill A barbecue grill for outdoor cooking has vertical spaced heating panels between which foodstuffs can be supported for cooking. One of the panels is slidable towards and away from the other panel to control the amount of heat supplied to the cooking area b... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4488480 | Continuous cooking device A continuous cooking device includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet defined therein and an intermediate conveyor for conveying food products to be cooked from the inlet to the outlet through a cooking chamber including heating apparatus. The heatin... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4346651 | Toaster for bread and other food items A toaster has a casing, two or more walls of which define between themselves an upright food-receiving space, and a base defining with the lower edges of these walls a clearance open to the food-receiving space. A separate food carrier is insertable into ... | 08/31/1982 |
